ANNA JENKS, 81; RETIRED NURSE

THE HARTFORD COURANT

Anna Riva McVeigh Jenks of Madison, a nurse who assisted with the first tuberculosis survey in East Hartford and helped victims during the 1944 fire at Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, died Tuesday at Hartford Hospital. She was 81.

Mrs. Jenks, formerly of East Hartford, served as a public health nurse during World War II. She was a widower of her husband of 25 years, Francis L. McVeigh, and her husband of three years, Raymond C.B. Jenks.

She was a 1939 graduate of Hartford Hospital Nursing School and completed a post-graduate public health nursing course at Simmons College in Boston. She was a volunteer nurse during the World War II blackouts. She worked several years at Hartford Hospital as a registered nurse and IV therapist. She retired at the age of 62.

She leaves her four children, Kathleen M. Radziewicz of East Hartford, Patricia A. Botticello of Manchester, Dr. Francis L. McVeigh Jr. of Woodbridge, Va., and Frederick P. McVeigh of Manchester; two brothers, Dr. Daniel F. Riva of Daytona Beach Shores, Fla., and Vincent E. Riva of New Britain and Miami, Fla.; a sister, Henrietta R. Tycz of East Hartford; a son-in- law; two daughters-in-law; seven grandchildren; two sisters-in-law and several nieces and nephews.